Slack Stopped Working On iOS 16 – Here’s How To Fix It

Slack is a chat tool that, like Discord, was developed with the goals of increasing productivity and improving teamwork. The program, which was developed by Slack Technologies, provides users with a number of capabilities, including channels that may be arranged based on the issue at hand, instant message, and private groups.

However, according to recent reports from users of the iOS 16 beta, a large number of people are seeing a notice that says “Jailbroken devices can’t use Slack” when attempting to run the app (1,2,3,4,5).

Many people seem to be frustrated as a result of the issue since they have been unable to use the application on their main smartphone for several weeks. Users that are affected have attempted to reinstall the app, but this has not proven to be successful.

Slack’s developers have, thankfully, responded to this issue by stating that they are working on it and have remarked on it. However, it is very unlikely that a fix will be available before the official release of iOS 16. Slack responded the following:

Apologies for the trouble, Rob. It looks like this is an upstream issue at the moment, and the Slack beta program won’t help here. We don’t officially support iOS 16 just yet, so you might prefer to roll back to iOS 15 for now. We’re sorry about the disruption.

The fix

We discovered a solution that may enable users of the iOS 16 beta to ignore the notice that their device is jailbroken and continue using Slack as usual. It requires installing the Charles Proxy program and turning the proxy service on.

So I figured out a temporary work around for

@SlackHQ

not working on iOS 16. Download the Charles Proxy app for iOS. Just enable it. It seems to block the jailbreak detection network request without any modifications.

Because the developers behind Slack have not yet officially supported iOS 16, we recommend that people who are impacted go back to iOS 15.